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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 189? edition. Excerpt: ... Xer. :-- Strike thy hoary locks, And piteously lament the vanished host. Cho. :-- With vehemence, with vehemence and woe. Xer :-- And drench thine eyes Cho. :-- In tears my lids are steeped. Xer. :-- Lift the responsive wail Cho.: -- Alas! alas! Xer. :-- Move homeward now, and raise the mournful strain. Cho. :-- Alas! I sigh to tread the Persian ground Xer. :-- Cry through the city, Cho. :-- Truly will I cry. Xer. :-- Wail as ye walk with measured step and slow. Cho. :-- Alas! I sigh to tread the Persian ground Woe! woe! Xer. :-- Alas! unutterably crushed Our friends from triple-benched vessels fell. Cho. :-- With sound of mourning thus I lead thee home. THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES. THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES The Argument. Polynices, son of iEdipus, exiled from Thebes by his brother Eteocles, who has assumed the throne, enlists the aid and sympathy of Adrastus, king of Argos. who sends an armament, led by six mighty chieftains, with Polynices the seventh, against Thebes, to compel the surrender of Eteocles. The army, however, is repulsed by the besieged, but Eteocles and Polynices are slain in the contest, each by the other's hand. The play concludes with the lamentations of Antigone and Ismene, sisters of the slain princes. Over the corpses of their brothers. Antigone boldly protesting against the public refusal of the Theban senators to allow honourable burial to the body of Polynices. PERSONS OF THE DRAMA. Eteocles. A Messenger A Herald. Antigone. Ismene. Chorus of Theban Virgins. Scene :--The Acropolis of Thebes. THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES Eteocles. :-- Ye citizens of Cadmus! it is right That one should speak in season who defends The state, and from the poop controls the helm, Nor lulls his lids in slumber. Verily, If we succeed, the gods...
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An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation of this ancient Greek drama, Peter Burian introduces a new generation of readers to a powerful work of Aeschylus' later years.
About the Author:
Aeschylus was Greece's leading playwright between his first victory at the festival Dionysus in 0484 B.C.E. until his death, winning thirteen first-place crowns in that period. His epitaph boasts only that he fought bravely for Athens at the Battle of Marathin.
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- PublisherPlayers Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0887348165
- ISBN 13 9780887348167
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages30
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